29 If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
This explains how I get included, but it says nothing about a ‘covenant’.
The new covenant is....”He that believes in me, though he were dead yet shall he live..” Christ then sealed that covenant with his own self sacrifice and he displayed his own power to take up his own life again by rising from the dead. Indeed the Resurrection was God’s Imprimatur, his stamp of approval on the New Covenant.
God has made other covenants with Israel thru Abraham(again which had Abraham laying sacrifices for) that he will carry out thru the Salvation of the 1/3 remaining Jews at the end of the Tribulation...they two will be joined or “engrafted in” to Christ’s new covenant.
The Lords Supper is that symbolic of that new covenant, Christ is that new living Covenant that God has offered to mankind and he also the embodiement of God’s promise to Israel that the Son of David would rule forever. The old covenant is not gone just fullfilled in Christ Jesus and we gentiles are a part of that promise made to Abraham...”that the gentiles would be included in his seed’s inheritance”>
You have mentioned “If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according TO THE PROMISE...”
Well a covenant includes obligations and duties but includes a the fulfillment of promises made when the covenants are kept. John chapter three explains basically what this new covenant is and what we have to do to enter into it and what happens under the aegis of that new covenant. But I don’t think I have to explain it to you...I think you just like somebody else saying the words that I know you believe wholeheartedly with your very depth of soul!
As I said earlier I awoke from hours of dream filled refreshing sleep and was writing somewhat stream of consciousness in response to your questions...and I have always taken your posts very seriously. Perhaps I get too preachy because the verses and ideas come and I feel the joy and my heart lights up. If I’ve gotten a few points wrong from time to time then from you at least I can trust you when you box my ears.